I have asked excessively but as yet, nobody has been able to give a satisfactory explanation as to how regular people (also known as filthy, worthless "voters") profit from the government that enslaves them holding large amounts of BTC and not using it to peg their paper garbage currency to it.

Astounding!

Those rules make perfect sense, if you follow them closely, you can simply write the code yourself and maybe even learn something while you're at it 😄

Clever bastard, and I'm not referring to Schiff.

So AI speaks for God himself now?

Those are human words, entirely accurate of course, but human nonetheless.

Now to weather the storm, Weimar 1923 seems to be due a reenactment.

I know of that strategy, thanks for sharing 👌🏻

Trouble is, not only do we save more than most people are able to but my wife and I have a household income roughly 2.5x the median in our country and we still have an incredibly hard time getting ahead in any way.

I guess since neither of us was born into wealth and neither of us is a one-in-a-million super-genius, we're just doomed to stay lower-middle-class tenants forever 😅

Pray elaborate!

Knowing your price is good in principle but refusing what are essentially tips or donations for being too small is as dumb as it is arrogant 😄 I would accept any amount or course but I'm simply not doing KYC, if it isn't hacked by some lowlife some other lowlife in the service of the government will come snooping at some point, especially as soon as they can't find anyone to lend them the money they've just printed anymore.

(If the last sentence sounds confusing, I recommend "The Mystery of Banking" by Murray N. Rothbard)

Well then 34 sats seems to be the price of avoiding KYC 😜

Hm, well, I hope that can be achieved despite the governments of the world because they would certainly rather die than expropriate us commoners any less.

It ought to be a minimum of 100, maybe it's time to switch wallets - anybody know a good self-custodial lightning wallet?

Haha, far be it from me, no my wallet doesn't seem to work as well as I would like it to 😄

Oh dear, not on purpose, I'm using Misty Breez, a self-custodial wallet with a minimum transaction amount of 100 sats, the 10000 might be some (new?) setting I haven't figured out yet - thanks for letting me know!

The relative utopia we could be living in is unfathomable.

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Saving in gold and bitcoin does help, especially in the long run but most, if not all, of the money saved in those forms of hard money is being earned in fiat, so everyday spending money becomes worth less and less, lowering purchasing power and standard of living even for us enlightened few able to save the value they've created.

I'm not trying to be a contrarian, my question is whether anyone knows of a feasible way to escape that hell and not starve to death while sitting on gold coins that, once spent, become less and less replacable because of monthly pay cuts.

I'm quite jealous, I'd much rather be doing that than writing ever more nonsense code for nonsense apps 😄

I'm not a fan of stealing.

In theory, those currencies could still be tied to gold again to at least stop further inflation, maybe at the cost of bankrupting a corrupt government here and there.

In practice, the only way out of hyperinflation seems to be leading straight through

ballers

... because say what you will about the church but they, unlike the state, never forced me to attend mass.

So ... was the kid already on the swing when you took it home? 😜

On that note, you should check on your neighbour, you know, the one who doesn't quite look like you - I think he's plotting to do nasty things to you. Oh and the gas station clerk is right now buying his seventh rolex with the money he tricked you out of, might be worth grabbing a fork and spoon and checking in on him.

Fair point, especially in the east I wouldn't be able to understand them but I am following the goings-on in France, Spain, Britain, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and I can name Tommy Robinson in Britain and Martin Sellner in Austria, that's two in roughly 30 countries that might match the infamy of Charlie Kirk and I sure am actively looking for people like that, even though Kirk and the other two aren't exactly part of the liberty movement.

To be fair, they don't know anything else, they *are* the people described in Rothbard's books.

As the great Scott Horton said recently, apparently there was something like "anarcho-capitalism by default" in Somalia after the central government had collapsed and all the warlord had tired themselves out without taking control and *before* the US started bombing them in 2001.

I've yet to look into it but it sounds fascinating.

Shitcoins obviously aren't a solution to anything long-term in any way but my monthly budget to buy BTC is rapidly decreasing because everything else is getting ever more expensive.

I already make about 1.9x the median income of my country and I still can't get out of the fiat trap.

Personally, I've recently realized that my only chance of living and retiring like my blue-collar grandparents is by hoping for and surviving a complete societal and economic collapse in almost all of Europe (Except Switzerland and Norway) leading to a black-plague-like redistribution of economic influence and once again enabling something resembling a meritocracy rather than this neo-feudalistic caste system in which you are doomed to stay at the level of wealth you were born at or most likely below.

I have nothing to add.

Shut up and take my sats!

I may be the Purchase but I can't afford anything.

If I had my choice, I'd pick the 60s but if it's the 80s or today, I'd be there in a heartbeat.

I do think it's strange that people both older AND younger than me understand fuck all about computers.

A quick and simple read on the topic would be "What has government done to our money?" by Murray N. Rothbard. If you want to go chin-deep, try "Human Action" by Ludwig von Mises.

Lovely, that's exactly how much I have.

You know, sometimes you encounter situations where there simply aren't any good guys, sometimes all sides are messed up and evil. Like the early 20th century German national socialists fighting communists in the streets - both sides were monstrous abominations and in the end, one of them won. Similar things can be said about lots of political and inter-state conflicts like, say, India and Pakistan (the governments, not the people, of course), the Warsaw pact and NATO, the French royalists and the revolutionary terrorists, Castro and Batista, Rome and Carthage, and many more

Well, I think the energy "market" is mostly two large gangs fighting for dominance so all the nitpicky terminology is nothing but marketing and therefore entirely meaningless. That's how come hydro is considered "green" (and therefore sacred or holy or whatever) while the most modern nuclear plant is considered to be on par with the dirtiest, unfiltered, late 19th century coal power plant.

I'll have a look, does that one also have a minimum amount of 100 sats?

My grandparents were so stupid they would've eaten gravel marinated in brake fluid if some politician had told them to.

Well, I'd say living a happy, prosperous life already goes a long way to spite the evil SoBs.

Nonetheless, the way I see it bitcoin is a tool in the belt of those who try to non-violently move the world towards liberty for everyone, a fight that is still, and will always be, worth fighting.

And well, maybe it's not the primary tool anymore, and maybe the mob has caught on to how it can be tracked, to me that means there is a clear and present need to further facilitate and anonymize the exchange of bitcoin for fiat cash.

Or maybe to simply mint new, smaller silver coins for daily expenses.

Bitcoiners like to say their technology is unstoppable but nearly everything can be overridden by violence, so another worthwhile cause, instead of merely evading KYC ("kill your customer") and other ways of tracking is to work to reduce institutionalized violence, break up large nation states into much smaller entities more likely to achieve consensus without the need for oppression, and truly bring about not just financial, but political freedom.

Oh and especially if you're in the US but elsewhere as well, work to strengthen individual gun rights, can't rely on the State to safeguard your liberty if the State is the only one trying to reduce it.